On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.

Sir William's wife, Lady Elizabeth, was the daughter of Henry, 5th Lord FitzHugh and Lady Alice Neville.

After William's death, his widow, Joyce, married the courtier Sir John Carey in 1538.

Lord Stanley kept his powder dry, taking no direct part in the action but stood unmoving between the two armies and it was Sir William's decisive intervention that gave Henry the victory.

Sir John's great-grandsons were William Cavendish ( 3rd husband of Bess of Hardwick ) and George Cavendish, William's brother and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's biographer.

Sir William's son, Sir John Temple ( 1600 – 1677 ), was Master of the Rolls in Ireland.

* Sir William's Wife

William Wilde was knighted in January 1864, but the family celebrations were short-lived, for in the same year Sir William and Lady Wilde were at the centre of a sensational Dublin court case regarding a young woman called Mary Travers, the daughter of a colleague of Sir William's, who claimed that he had seduced her and who then brought an action against Lady Wilde for libel.

Living in Naples as Sir William's mistress, Emma developed what she called her " Attitudes ", using Romney's idea of combining classical poses with modern allure as the basis for her act.

In A Cognocenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique ( 1801 ), James Gillray caricatured Sir William's attitude toward the affair between Emma and Nelson.

Emma gave birth to Nelson's daughter Horatia, on 31 January 1801 at Sir William's rented home in Clarges Street, 23 Piccadilly, London.

Under the terms of the will, £ 500 was bequeathed to each of the acting executors ; £ 100 to Miss Mary Jackson ; £ 100 to each of two nieces ; £ 200 to Lady Gull's maid ; £ 50 to Sir William's amanuensis, Miss Susan Spratt ; and an annual sum of £ 32 10s to his butler, William Brown, for the rest of his life.

She also received a life annuity of £ 3, 000, commencing 12 months after Sir William's death.

Sir William's daughter Caroline received £ 26, 000 in trust, while his son Sir William Cameron Gull received the sum of £ 40, 000 and all the real estate.

The residue of Sir William's personal estate was to be held in trust for the purchase of real estate in England or Scotland ( but not in Ireland ) which was to be added to the entailed estate.

Sir William's daughter Margaret married Murrough O ' Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin ; his son John was father of Arthur St Leger, created Viscount Doneraile in 1703.

After Sir William's death in 1805, it was known as the Pulteney Estate.

Morris declared Barons Court was named " after Sir William's Irish Estates ," Baronscourt.

During King William's War ( 1689 – 1697 ), the next most serious threat to Quebec in the 17th century came in 1690 when, alarmed by the attacks of the petite guerre, the New England colonies sent an armed expedition north, under Sir William Phips, to capture Quebec itself.

William's father Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple ( born 1926 ) is the current and 10th Baronet of North Berwick.

The third group under Sir Herbert Samuel pressed for the parties in government to fight the election on separate platforms.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

The work consists of four ‘ books ’, the first addressed to the Queen, the second to Leicester, the third to Lord Burghley, and the fourth to Oxford, Sir Christopher Hatton, and Leicester's nephew Philip Sidney, with whom he would famously quarrel.

Aberdeen's second son was General Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon ; his third son was the Reverend Douglas Hamilton-Gordon ; and his youngest son Arthur Gordon was created Baron Stanmore in 1893.

* Sir William Compton ( 1625-1663 ; third son of Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton )

In 1886 a third species, Swietenia macrophylla, was named by Sir George King ( 1840 – 1909 ) after studying specimens of Honduras mahogany planted in the Botanic Gardens in Calcutta, India.

His third son Sir William Peel was a naval commander and recipient of the Victoria Cross.

The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.

The colony's third and last governor, Sir Arthur Kennedy oversaw the union of the two colonies in 1866.

The second and third manifestos, respectively An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism, were sent to Nicholas Serota which received a brief reply: " Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March.

Amherst then led an army against French troops on Lake Champlain, where he captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1759, while another army under Sir William Johnson took Niagara also in July 1759 and James Wolfe besieged and eventually captured Quebec with a third army in September 1759.

On 18 April 2003 as part of the third report into collusion between Loyalist paramilitaries, RUC, and British Army, Sir John Stevens published an Overview and Recommendations document ( Stevens 3 ).

In his third discourse, published in 1798, Sir William Jones mentions a conversation with a Hindu priest who told him that the script was called Zend, and the language Avesta.

Their daughters were actresses Viola Tree ( who married theatre critic Alan Parsons ) and Felicity Tree ( who married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, third baronet ) and poet Iris Tree ( who married Curtis Moffat, becoming Countess Ledebur ).

* Lady Katherine Neville, married first on 12 January 1411 John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ; married second Sir Thomas Strangways ; married third John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont ; married fourth Sir John Woodville ( d. 12 August 1469 ).

In 1559, Bess married a third time, to Sir William St. Loe ( St Lowe, Saintlowe, or Sentloe ), and became Lady St Loe.

He married in 1577 Mary Sidney, the famous Countess of Pembroke ( c. 1561 – 1621 ), third daughter of Sir Henry Sidney and his wife Mary Dudley.

After the third series, following Sir Humphrey's promotion to Cabinet Secretary, Hacker becomes Prime Minister and requests that Bernard Woolley continue as his Principal Private Secretary.

Of the players who encountered Philidor, Sir Abraham Janssens, who died in 1775, seems to have been the best, Mr. George Atwood, a mathematician, one of Pitt's secretaries came next, he was of a class which we should call third or two grades of odds below Philidor, a high standard of excellence to which but few amateurs attain.

Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.

Sir Samuel was the grandfather-in-law of the society hostess Emerald, Lady Cunard ( wife of the third baronet ), and the great-grandfather of Nancy Cunard.